[592] This most be the meaning of 'quicquid a discursoribus novi census per quintam Indictionem probatur affixum, ad vestram eos fecimus deferre notitiam.'
[593] Tax-collectors. The word is unknown to the Notitia, but Censuales occurs once in it (Not. Occ. iv.).
[594] 'Quos etiam seris praeceptionibus credidit esse admonendos, ut relicto tandem provincialium gravamine ad ejus deberetis justitiam festinare.'
[595] 'Nimis enim absurdum est, spondere munitiones et dare civibus excecrabiles vastitates.'
[596] 'Conventiones.' I think the complaint here is of the expenses of 'executing process.' It is not as Judge but as the functionary who carries the Judge's orders into effect that Gildias is here blamed.
[597] 'Nostra' (the reading of Nivellius) seems evidently a better reading than 'vestra' (which Migne has adopted).
[598] 'Commodum debet esse cum modo.' A derivation or a pun.
[599] 'Duntaxat in illis causis atque personis, ubi te misceri edicta voluerunt.'
[600] 'Quisquis belluinis moribus excitatus munimen tentaverit irrumpere jussionum.'
[601] 'Gothorum laus est civilitas custodita.'